Shane Roush, the man who nearly killed a Morrow County deputy in a shootout in 2010, just got a
new prison tattoo.

The tattoo — two bullets and the phrase
H2K — refer to the two shots that Deputy Brandon Moore was able to fire into Roush’s body,
ending the shootout despite Moore being ambushed, outgunned and gravely wounded.

“
H2K meaning ‘hard to kill,’ ” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Salvador A. Dominguez when
describing the tattoo during a sentencing hearing for Roush in federal court yesterday. “We are
troubled by that.”

U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sentenced Roush to 25 years in prison on a federal
manufacturing-marijuana charge. It will be served concurrently to the 25-year sentence for
convictions of attempted aggravated murder and felonious assault that Roush already is serving for
the attack.

On Oct. 21, 2010, Moore responded to a property dispute between Roush and his neighbors near the
Knox/Morrow county line. While there, a neighbor said Roush was growing marijuana. Moore peeked
around a privacy fence, and Roush took aim with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Moore was shot multiple times.

Authorities found more than 1,700 marijuana plants on the property and seized 104 guns, many of
them assault weapons. A federal weapons charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement.

Moore and his family sat in the front row of the courtroom and listened as Marbley reacted to
the news of the tattoo.

“You remain defiant,” Marbley told Roush, 40. “Officer Moore was simply a man doing his job that
day. He did not anticipate coming so close to a brush with death.”

Moore said though he long ago put Roush out of his mind, his family needed to attend the
sentencing to achieve some sort of closure.

“I am just so relieved that we’ll never have to see him or hear his name again,” said Moore’s
wife, Diandra. “He didn’t win.”

As part of the federal case, Roush agreed to forfeit his 11 vehicles that the government seized,
including a Dodge Viper, a Corvette and a Mitsubishi 3000GT.

Roush’s wife, Corrina, 37, has also pleaded guilty to a federal drug-manufacturing charge.

She is to be sentenced later this month. The Moores don’t plan to attend.